Category: Cool Leaders
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Introducing the Facebook Independent Oversight Board
By Mark Zuckerberg One of the most important projects I’ve worked on over the past couple of years is establishing an independent Oversight Board that our community can appeal to on some of the hardest questions about what content is allowed on our services. Today we’re publishing the board’s charter…
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Introducing Libra
By Mark Zuckerberg Today, Facebook is coming together with 27 organizations around the world to start the non-profit Libra Association and create a new currency called Libra. Libra’s mission is to create a simple global financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people around the world. It’s powered by blockchain technology…
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Let me make some things clear about my school strike
By Greta Thunberg on Facebook Recently I’ve seen many rumors circulating about me and enormous amounts of hate. This is no surprise to me. I know that since most people are not aware of the full meaning of the climate crisis (which is understandable since it has never been treated…
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Mark Zuckerberg: Going into 2019, we’re focused on four priorities
By Mark Zuckerberg We just released our community update and quarterly results. We’ve fundamentally changed how we run our company to focus on the biggest social issues and have made significant progress. We’re also investing more to build new and inspiring ways for people to connect and build community. You…
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Podcast with Matt Mullenweg
Matt Mullenweg has been named one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, and Business Week’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web. Matt is most associated with a tool that powers more than 22% of the entire web: WordPress. Even if you aren’t…
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Nikolai Wolfert started the Leila ‘borrowing shop’ in Berlin
The most popular items in Berlin’s first “borrowing shop” are the electric drills. At least one of the local people who have registered with Leila – a little shop on Fehrbelliner Strasse, north-east of the city centre – seems to be continually fixing shelves or hanging pictures. But it’s not…
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Meet Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky
Airbnb has garnered favorable comparisons to eBay’s $212 billion marketplace, and for most startups this would be a compliment. Not for Chesky. “People went to Dell for the computers, but they go to Apple for everything,” Chesky says. “That’s the difference between a transactional company and a transformational one.” There’s…
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Richard Branson’s top 10 tips for success
Richard Branson left school at the age of 16 and set up Student Magazine with one of his friends. He went on to start Virgin Records in the 1970s and is the founder of the Virgin Group. In the 1980s he formed Virgin Atlantic airline and the 1990s saw the…
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Entrepreneur of 2012: Limor Fried
Limor Fried notes that once upon a time, it might have seemed strange for a person to spend an afternoon building something like the MintyBoost, a portable USB mobile-device charger assembled from an Altoids tin and bits of electronic hardware. But if the 50,000 MintyBoost kits sold so far by…
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Don’t build a fast company. Build a slow one.
Jason Fried is a founder and CEO of 37signals, a software company based in Chicago. Fried also treats 37signals as something of a laboratory for innovative workplace practices–such as a recent experiment in shortening the summer workweek to just four days. We caught up with Fried to learn how employees…
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